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SUBMITTER: Helgeson VS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5832590 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Helgeson Vicki S VS Seltman Howard H Korytkowski Mary T MT Hausmann Leslie Rm LR
Journal of health psychology 20170906 5
The study goal was to determine whether partner's level of unmitigated communion moderated the relation of partner communal coping to patient health. Couples in which one person was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (<i>n</i> = 123) were interviewed separately and asked to discuss a diabetes-related problem. Communal coping behavior (from videotaped discussions) interacted with partner communal coping, such that partner communal coping was related to lower patient distress, higher patient ...[more]